Just wanted to add in: good catch Gershom on identifying the problem, and thank you Taylor for working to remove them from the report.
> On 18 Nov 2018, at 21:17, Taylor Fausak <tay...@fausak.me> wrote: > > Great catch, Gershom! There are indeed about 300 responses that tick all the > boxes except for disliking the new GHC release schedule. The main thing the > attacker seemed to be interested in was over-representing Stack and Stackage. > Also, bizarrely, Java. > > That brings the number of bogus responses up to 3,735, which puts the number > of legitimate responses at 1,361. For context, last year's survey asked far > fewer questions and had 1,335 responses. > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Imants Cekusins wrote: >> What if the announcement mentioned a large number of potentially bogus >> responses, explained the grounds for this conclusion, with a new survey >> conducted early next year? >> >> The next survey would then need to be done differently from this one >> somehow. To improve the reliability, some authentication may be necessary. >> >> >> Maybe Stack, Cabal questions could be grouped as separate distinct surveys, >> conducted by their maintainers through own channels? >> >> Not sure how much value is in exact numbers of users of Stack or Cabal. Both >> groups are large enough. The maintainers of both groups are aware about >> usage stats. >> >> Is either library likely to be influenced by this survey? >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-community mailing list >> Haskell-community@haskell.org <mailto:Haskell-community@haskell.org> >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >> <http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-community mailing list > Haskell-community@haskell.org <mailto:Haskell-community@haskell.org> > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community > <http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community>
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